Millionaire US big game hunter, 75, is trampled to death by five elephants in central Africa.
Californian vineyard owner Ernie Dosio, 75 – who owns a vast collection of exotic animal heads in trophy rooms at home – was trampled to death. He was being guided by a professional hunter in the thick forest of Gabon on a £30,000 ($40,000) stalk for a shot at the elusive yellow-backed duiker. Over the decades, he has hunted elephants, leopard, rhino, buffalo and lion across Africa and back home in the US, he has hunted almost every species of wild deer.
But the highly respected hunter’s luck ran out last Friday while in the Lope-Okanda rainforest when his hunt stumbled into five female elephants with a calf. African elephants are the largest land mammals and females can stand 12ft tall at the shoulder, weigh nearly four tons and run at speeds of up to 25mph.
The startled elephant herd immediately charged Mr Dosio and his professional hunter. The elephants were so well hidden in the dense undergrowth that they appeared ‘as if from nowhere,’ and the professional with the high-powered rifle was just flung aside.
Didn’t have Elephants on my 2026 bingo card, along with the TEMU submarine and random pissed off Italian guy from previous years.